27 October – 2 December 2017: Archivio Aperto hosted by Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia marks the tenth year in the evolution of Home Movies. “The programme also includes a tribute to Gustav Deutsch, the international master of found footage filmmaking, with a double focus on his reuse of home movies”. Bologna, IT. See Programme.

3 November 2017: Peter Forgacs in conversation with members of the Romanian National Association of Amateur Filmmakers and Cine-Clubs, French Institute, Bucharest, RO.

6 – 27 May 2015: ‘i/eye in conflict: personal stories from the Middle East‘, at the Barbican.

until 22 March 2015: Letters to Afar: By Péter Forgács, Museum of the City of New York – “video art installation based on home movies made by New York City’s Jewish immigrants who traveled back to visit Poland during the 1920s and 30s. The films document poignant family reunions and everyday life in small towns in the years before the Second World War, capturing a culture on the brink….”

18 November: Orphans at MoMA: An Amateur Cinema League of Nations. “Inaugurating a new annual collaboration in To Save and Project between MoMA and the NYU Orphan Film Symposium, this program celebrates the historical art of amateur filmmaking. Six curator-historians present six short, sophisticated movies covering a 50-year span, from 1926 through 1976. …”

25-27 July 2013: 14th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, Bucksport, Maine, USA (call for papers ends 4th June 2013). “The NHF Summer Symposium is a multi-disciplinary gathering devoted to the history, theory, and preservation of amateur and nontheatrical moving images. For over a decade, the Symposium has been bringing together archivists, scholars, and artists in an intimate setting for three days of viewing and discussing lesser-known, amateur, and found films.”

2-3 May 2013: The project-team of the research project “Changing platforms of ritualized memory practices. The cultural dynamics of home movies” is organising a two-day workshop on ‘How to Keep our Audiovisual Memories Safe? Storing Home Movies, Home Video and Online Content’ at the The Institut für Landeskunde und Regionalgeschichte in Bonn. For details see Workshop Announcement and Poster.

Until 16th January 2013 – Northeast Historic Film welcomes applications for the William O’Farrell Fellowship, US.
The William O’Farrell Fellowship is awarded to an individual engaged in research toward a publication, production, or presentation based on moving image history and culture, particularly amateur and nontheatrical film. With this fellowship, we honor the continuing legacy of Canadian film archivist William O’Farrell, a long time advocate for amateur and nontheatrical film collections.
The fellowship is designed to support a month’s study within Northeast Historic Film’s collections, a moving image archives located in Maine.